Flattening Python Code with "continue"

Flat code is better than nested.  It's more readable, easier to update, and easier to debug.  All of the linux kernel source code uses 8-space indents because, as I've seen it explained by Linus, if you can't use enough indents with 8-space, you have too many indents and need to refactor your code so it's more simple.

I do some data analysis type stuff at work fairly often.  Sometimes I'll have a half-dozen conditional statements to satisfy in a loop where I'm ticking over rows of data.  Using the "continue" statement is a really simple way to keep code flat and manageable.

Bad form would be like this:
for row in my_data:
    if row[val] == 'blah':
        if row[val2] == 'test':
            doFunc(row)
            doFunc2(row[val3])
            if row[val3]:
                yield row


Better would be like this:
for row in my_data:
    if row[val] != 'blah':
        continue
    if row[val2] != 'test':
       continue
    doFunc(row)
    doFunc2(row[val3])
    if row[val3]:
        yield row